Need a low calorie but yummy ice cream replacement?

Being a McIntosh at heart, I am a sucker for ice cream! Runs in my family. Even our health freaks in the family can't turn down a bowl of sweet, creamy goodness! It trully can be a craving. Growing up we would eat big bowls of ice cream almost every other night. You never could have enough! Well I know it kills my weight loss any time and has nothing good in store for the future. Any help?

Skinny cow ice cream? A frozen banana then blended with cocoa powder so it's a " soft serve " ice cream.

Similar idea! Try a Yo-nana! It's a machine that you can get a various stores, such as Best Buy, and all that goes into it is a banana! It comes out looking and tasting just like soft serve ice cream! No other ingredients! But, you can try different. Ombos, such as adding dark chocolate, strawberries, organic cAndies, nuts, brownie bits; there are endless combinations!(: Good Luck!

Love the skinny cow. But made some banana gelato today. If you can live with 50 grams, it's about 100 cals.

Make smoothies with frozen fruit. They come out almost like soft-serve. And frozen bananas are excellent straight out of the freezer, even - I've never made the banana soft-serve, simply because I always end up just eating the frozen banana like an ice cream bar. Frozen grapes are really nice, too. 

Also, invest in one of those little hand-cranked ice cream churns and make your own healthy ice cream at home. I've had great success with almond milk - it's definitely not the same as ice cream, but it's good in its own way, and at 40-60 cals/cup you can't really go wrong. Hey, you can even make your own rich, creamy, unhealthy ice creams - the ice cream maker makes limited quantities and is too warm to use after one batch, so it has built-in portion control, and the experience of making the ice cream yourself forces you to be more mindful when you eat it.

Or just keep eating real ice cream in sensible portions. Nothing wrong with the occasional treat. Maybe splurge on the really good stuff, like Haagen Dazs or something from a small local creamery, so you can really appreciate it and you'll have more incentive to slow down and savour it.

Skinny cow and minute maid frozen cups (100)cal or even the minute maid frozen tubes (70) cal

I just found these the other week- they're called Whole Fruit Smoothie Cups- super yummy and only 100 calories!

Unpeel a banana, wrap it in wax paper and freeze it. Cut it up and eat it as is, or blend it with milk for a soft serve-like treat. I like to add peanut butter, cinnamon and cocoa nibs.

Sorbet is pretty good.

I bought an ice cream maker a while back & have made some VERY naughty ice (Peanut butter, white chocolate to name a few) but there are other lower fat ice cream recipes too. Plus you know whats going in it. You can make sorbet with it as well - made a lemon one which is delicious! May try a raspberry one once I've finished my lemon batch.

ARTIC ZERO!!! 150 calories a whole pint, high protein, tastes and texture just like real icecream!! The cookies and cream and vanilla maple are my favorites!!

1 cup of evaporate milk 6 or 7 cups of frozen sliced strawberries 1 tsp vanilla extract 4 tbsp sugar Blend all, then freeze for at least 8 hours..

Throw some fat free Greek yogurt and some frozen fruit in a blender! It's tasty!!

Artic Zero  150 calories in a pint no fat  find it in health food store or google it and order online

I agree with the Arctic Zero recommendations.  However, have you ladies experienced any, ehrm, flatulance issues when consuming a pint of this stuff?  I'd say it's worth it, but it really seems to bloat me up when I eat a lot in one sitting!

^ I'm pretty sure Arctic Zero contains sugar alcohols, which can cause irritability, especially when consumed in large amounts.

Original Post by cellophane_star:

^ I'm pretty sure Arctic Zero contains sugar alcohols, which can cause irritability, especially when consumed in large amounts.

No sugar alcohols.  It's organic.  INGREDIENTS: PURIFIED WATER, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, ORGANIC CANE SUGAR, CHICORY ROOT, DUTCH PROCESSED COCOA POWDER WITH ALKALI, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL FLAVORS, SEA SALT, MONK FRUIT CONCENTRATE.

Pretty sure it's the chicory root from what I've read on the internet.

Original Post by floridapauline:

ARTIC ZERO!!! 150 calories a whole pint, high protein, tastes and texture just like real icecream!! The cookies and cream and vanilla maple are my favorites!!

Lol, I bought those exact flavors yesterday! I love Arctic Zero - if only it wasn't so pricey, maintenance would be so much easier.

Not exactly an ice cream replacement, but a yummy, healthy (and super simple) frozen treat I came up with: frozen fruit skewers! Just put chunks of raw fruit on a skewer and freeze. You can dust them with cinnamon or some kind of spice and drizzle them with melted chocolate if you like, too. I used peaches, apricots, mangoes, bananas, pitted cherries, and whole grapes on mine. The peaches came out a little hard and icy for my liking, but the other fruits all froze up nice and soft. 

Original Post by tinyntough:

Original Post by cellophane_star:

No sugar alcohols.  It's organic.  INGREDIENTS: PURIFIED WATER, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, ORGANIC CANE SUGAR, CHICORY ROOT, DUTCH PROCESSED COCOA POWDER WITH ALKALI, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL FLAVORS, SEA SALT, MONK FRUIT CONCENTRATE.

Pretty sure it's the chicory root from what I've read on the internet.

I see! It's not sold in Canada so I've only heard about this stuff on CC. Now I am curious... I wonder how they keep it low calorie with only

Chicory root is one of the ingredients in "fiber added" products, I do believe.

Original Post by cellophane_star:

Original Post by tinyntough:

Original Post by cellophane_star:

No sugar alcohols.  It's organic.  INGREDIENTS: PURIFIED WATER, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, ORGANIC CANE SUGAR, CHICORY ROOT, DUTCH PROCESSED COCOA POWDER WITH ALKALI, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL FLAVORS, SEA SALT, MONK FRUIT CONCENTRATE.

Pretty sure it's the chicory root from what I've read on the internet.

I see! It's not sold in Canada so I've only heard about this stuff on CC. Now I am curious... I wonder how they keep it low calorie with only

Chicory root is one of the ingredients in "fiber added" products, I do believe.

I think I am going to have some right now!!! :D Was going to have another bowl of tofu but hahahaha :)

Here's a recipe for one I just found: 

http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2012/07/16/c hocolate-banana-soft-serve/

It's similar to what CellephaneStar posted